gassing
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How to use gassing in a sentence
Bashar al-Assad is probably the first head of state to have improved his international status by gassing his own people.
For Bashar Al-Assad, Crossing Obama's Red Line Was a Win-Win | Anna Momigliano | November 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBy the summer of l942, the Allies and most of the world knew that the Nazis were gassing Jews in Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
I thought she'd do; she seemed a gossipy woman, kept on knitting and gassing over a stove in the hall.
The Dark Tower | Phyllis BottomeHe's setting there now, gassing with a lot of the players, telling funny stories and the like.
Bunker Bean | Harry Leon WilsonAnd we have been sitting here, gassing, whilst— He broke off abruptly.
The Lady of North Star | Ottwell J. Binns
You can't get out of it, after gassing so much about the place.
The Travelling Companions | F. AnsteyTime someone thought about it instead of gassing about the what was it the pensive bosom of the silver effulgence.
Ulysses | James Joyce
British Dictionary definitions for gassing
/ (ˈɡæsɪŋ) /
the act or process of supplying or treating with gas
the affecting or poisoning of persons with gas or fumes
the evolution of a gas, esp in electrolysis
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